So, I did a lot of dial turning and heap tuning (came across this nice
writeup about JVM tuning
http://blog.mikiobraun.de/2010/08/cassandra-gc-tuning.html) still no luck
with 1.2.9. I gave up and upgraded to 1.2.12 and since then things are much
much better. I don't run into the heap issue that I u
Yes, we saw this same behavior.
A couple of months ago, we moved a large portion of our data out of
Postgres and into Cassandra. The initial migration was done in a
"distributed" manner: we had 600 (or 800, can't remember) processes
reading from Postgres and writing to Cassandra in tight loops.
